Why bother hiding?


Before she's about to rip-off the Rutland safe, Marnie hides in the ladies room and goes to much trouble not to be seen.

Why? She's only going to run off with the loot and merge elsewhere as someone else.

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why hide? So the office would be completely empty without witnesses--so she thought. (the whole bldg may have been vacant also)

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Not sure I understand. Can you elucidate?

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Elucidate? Uh, yeah..you don't break into a safe with an office full of people, or she would have a lot of elucidating to do to when the police arrive. Like a thief don't rob an occupied house in broad daylight

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She didn't have to hide in order to be alone in the building. You have elucidated nothing. I didn't ask, "why didn't she rob the safe in the middle of the work day, d'uh"???

Why hide when no one was "supposedly" there? And even if the washer woman saw her, EVERYBODY on God's green earth will know, the next day when she disappears that it was Marnie who committed the robbery.

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The next day, she is no longer there to be handcuffed . The next day, she has changed her identity. The next day, her purse money is safely stashed with money from the safe, and she has dissapeared. That's the M.O , to change her identity (etc.) on the next day. The next day is meaningless. The film should have elucidated that for you.
Your welcome

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I believe she hides to make it look like she left the building at the end of the workday. She waited to come out until they were all gone. The housekeeper was doing her rounds early. Even though Marnie was going to change identities, she still wouldn't want someone to call the police while she was committing the crime.

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It's amazing that there are people who don't get this.

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